little island Chinese characters children often confuse
Look-alike and sound-alike characters cost easy marks in 听写 and in the language-use section of school papers. Each page gives a simple rule, the meaning of each character and example words from the lessons.
- 的 / 地 / 得 — possessive / describing a noun / describing how something is done / after a verb or adjective, saying how well or how much
- 在 / 再 — at, in / again
- 己 / 已 — self / already
- 买 / 卖 — to buy / to sell
- 休 / 体 — to rest / body
- 大 / 太 — big / too, extremely
- 土 / 士 — soil, earth / scholar, soldier
- 日 / 目 — sun, day / eye
- 贝 / 见 — shell / to see
- 住 / 往 — to live, stay / towards
- 做 / 作 — to do, to make / work
- 坐 / 座 — to sit / seat
- 那 / 哪 — that / which? where?
- 他 / 她 / 它 — he / she / it (animals and things)
- 象 / 像 — elephant / to look like, resemble
- 带 / 戴 — to bring, take along / to wear (hat, glasses, watch)
- 进 / 近 — to enter / near
- 园 / 圆 — garden, park / round
- 明 / 名 — bright / name
- 请 / 清 / 情 / 晴 / 睛 — please / clear / feeling / sunny / eyeball
- 到 / 倒 — to arrive / to fall over
- 渴 / 喝 — thirsty / to drink
- 支 / 只 — measure word for pens, songs / only
- 几 / 机 — how many / machine
- 须 / 需 — must / to need
- 和 / 合 — and / to combine, fit together
- 以 / 已 — by means of (可以, 以为) / already (已经)